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Dr. Syeda Tanveer Kausar Naim
Former Chairperson, Pakistan Council for Science and Technology
UNESCO International Advisory Board (IAB)

Date and Time: 15^th January 2021; 03:00 pm Pakistan Standard Time;
02:00 pm Gulf Standard Time
10:00 am Greenwich Mean Time

Abstract of Talk: After a short introduction about the relationship between Science, Technology and Innovation, the National Innovation Systems and role of STI Policies will be discussed.  Since the innovation systems of countries comprise several individual systems centered on specific technologies, the relevance of STI capabilities and importance of public policy instruments required towards creating a friendly business climate will be discussed. The last few slides will describe the essential institutional architecture required for promotion of innovation in the member states of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). 

Target Audience: This webinar is open to academicians, scientists, and general public from all the member OIC states and beyond.

Profile of Speaker: Dr. Tanveer Kausar Naim obtained D.Phil from Sussex University, UK. She Served as Chairperson, Pakistan Council for Science and Technology and head STI Policy Research and Training Centre of the Secretariat of OIC Organization of Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH) in Islamabad. Her major responsibilities included STI Policy advice, training and promotion of higher education and research. She was actively involved in facilitating research collaboration between Pakistani scientists with their colleagues in USA, UK, South Korea and China and was instrumental in connecting Pakistani scientists with their USA counterparts through GlORID network. She served as member of UNESCO International Advisory Board (IAB) on reform of the Science, Technology and Innovation System In Nigeria, conducted Technology Audit for Turkey under EU 7th Framework Program.  She also provided STI review and advisory services to Maldives, Gambia, and Pakistan. She has served as member of Board of Trustees of International Network for Promotion of Scientific Publications (INASP) at Oxford and as member of the quality control board of MERID project which helped create awareness in the Middle East scientific community about Horizon 2020 and other programmes of EU.  During 2018 she served as senior consultant to UNESCO for preparation of STI profiles of 56 members state of Islamic Development Bank and to propose policy instruments for the Bank towards helping member states build their STI capacity.

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Speaker:   Prof. Dr. Khalid Saeed Khan

Distinguished Investigator (Beatriz Galindo programme) , University of Granada, Spain
Former Editor-in-Chief of British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Founder of  Core Outcomes in Women’s and Newborn Health (CROWN) award winning initiative

Date and Time: 21st  January 2021
10:00am- 11:30am Pakistan Standard Time

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Biography

Khalid Saeed Khan is Distinguished Investigator (Beatriz Galindo programme) at University of Granada, Spain. With an h-index>70 he has published over 400 peer-reviewed papers and supervised 25 higher-degree theses. He graduated in medicine from the Aga Khan University in its first health faculty cohort. Higher training at McMaster University led him to an academic career, focusing on patient-oriented clinical research. Khalid has contributed to many trials and meta-analyses: has run 48 primary research trials, recruiting 979,242 participants, and has published 149 systematic reviews, collating data from 6415 studies with 68,798,079 participants. He is the lead author of ‘Systematic Reviews to Support Evidence-Based Medicine’, which won a BMA Medical Book award. He is former Editor of BJOG, EBM-BMJ and BMC Med Educ. His Core Outcomes in Women’s and Newborn Health (CROWN) initiative was awarded a BMA Strutt and Harper grant to help reduce research waste.

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5084-7312

https://professorkhalidkhan.com

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Mr. Ehsan Masood

Nature’s Editor for Editorials
2017/2018- Knight Science Journalism Fellow- Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Date and Time: 6^th January 2021; 03:00 pm Pakistan Standard Time; 02:00 pm Gulf Standard Time: 10:00 am Greenwich Mean Time

Blurb: The COVID-19 pandemic has propelled science communication from a relatively niche field into a mainstream topic. Researchers in all countries are at the heart of providing their peers, the public and policymakers with reliable information on a virus and a disease that has killed more than 1.7 million people. Citizens scroll incessantly to receive updates on case numbers. Journals are working overtime to publish, and regulators have green-lighted vaccines in record time. Ehsan Masood, an editor with the journal Nature in London, reflects on a year that has been unlike any other in his 25-year career in science communication. 

Target Audience: This webinar is open to academicians, scientists, and general public from all the member OIC states and beyond.

Profile of Speaker: Ehsan Masood is a science journalist. He is presently Nature’s Editor for Editorials and also has responsibility for the journal’s news coverage from Africa and the Middle East. He is the author of a a number of books including The Great Invention, a narrative history of how GDP became the world’s most influential economic indicator (Pegasus, 2016) and Science and Islam: A History (Second edition, Icon, 2017). He has also made documentaries on science and policy for BBC Radio 4 and was a 2017/2018 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Between 2007 and 2017 he taught science and innovation policy to students of science communication at Imperial College London. 

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Mr. Ehsan Masood

Nature’s Editor for Editorials
2017/2018- Knight Science Journalism Fellow- Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Date and Time: 6^th January 2021; 03:00 pm Pakistan Standard Time; 02:00 pm Gulf Standard Time: 10:00 am Greenwich Mean Time

Blurb: The COVID-19 pandemic has propelled science communication from a relatively niche field into a mainstream topic. Researchers in all countries are at the heart of providing their peers, the public and policymakers with reliable information on a virus and a disease that has killed more than 1.7 million people. Citizens scroll incessantly to receive updates on case numbers. Journals are working overtime to publish, and regulators have green-lighted vaccines in record time. Ehsan Masood, an editor with the journal Nature in London, reflects on a year that has been unlike any other in his 25-year career in science communication. 

Target Audience: This webinar is open to academicians, scientists, and general public from all the member OIC states and beyond.

Profile of Speaker: Ehsan Masood is a science journalist. He is presently Nature’s Editor for Editorials and also has responsibility for the journal’s news coverage from Africa and the Middle East. He is the author of a a number of books including The Great Invention, a narrative history of how GDP became the world’s most influential economic indicator (Pegasus, 2016) and Science and Islam: A History (Second edition, Icon, 2017). He has also made documentaries on science and policy for BBC Radio 4 and was a 2017/2018 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Between 2007 and 2017 he taught science and innovation policy to students of science communication at Imperial College London. 

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du 16 au 17 février 2021

Organized by:

COMSTECH Secretariat, Islamabad in Collaboration with the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS) Karachi, Pakistan

January 11-12, 2021

Molecular biology is an important area of interest for scientists working in various disciplines including structural biology, genetics, biochemistry, and biotechnology etc. Molecular biology plays important roles in understanding formations, actions, and regulations of various parts of cells which can be used to efficiently targets new drugs, diagnose diseases, and understand the physiology of the cell. This two-day online certificate course comprised of lectures followed by training sessions on “Basic concepts and techniques in molecular biology”. The course is designed to teach the basic skills of molecular biology to participants from all scientific disciplines those have little or no previous experience in molecular biology hands on work. It is also an ideal course for those who would like to consolidate their current, basic skill level and to further polish their handling skills.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

The course is designed for the large group of audience including graduate students, scientists, research scholars, and medical doctors those have interest to work at molecular level in related fields of molecular biology. People from variety of disciplines and academic backgrounds including Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics, and Biotechnology can get benefit from this workshop.

WORKSHOP CONTENT

The program includes a series of online lectures and hands-on sessions on the following topics;

Basic Cloning Requirements

Polymerase Chain Reaction

Agarose Gel Electrophoresis

Extraction of DNA from Agarose Gel

Cloning and Expression Vectors

Preparation and Purification of Plasmid DNA

Restriction Digestion

Ligation

Transformation in Bacterial Cells

Expression and Purification

VENUE

Time: Jan 11, 2021, 12:00 PM Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent

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Time: Jan 12, 2021 10:00 AM Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent

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WORKSHOP PROGRAM (Pakistan Standard Time)

Day One

12:00-12:05     Inauguration Ceremony

12:05-12:10     Recitation of the Holy Quran

12:10-12:20     Welcome Address by Prof. Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary

12:20-13:30     Lecture 1 entitled, “General Molecular Biology Lab Techniques: Cloning, Restriction Digestion, Ligation, Transformation”

13:30-14:30   Practical Session (Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), Agarose Gel Electrophoresis, DNA Extraction)

Day Two

10:00-12:00     Practical Session 2 (Plasmid Prep, Restriction Digestion, Ligation, Transformation)

11:00-12:00     Practical Session 3 (Protein Expression)

12:00-12:15     Closing Ceremony

REGISTRATION PROCESS

Register at: https://forms.gle/8L1dGf5mMfzsPpA97 . Kindly fill the form and submit it before 8^th January, 2021. Registered participants will receive e-certificates.

CONTACT PERSON

Khazima Muazim
Programme Manager
COMSTECH Secretariat, Islamabad
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Email: khazima@comstech.org

December 14-15, 2020

Cell culture is one of the major approaches used in cellular and molecular biology, providing an excellent model system for studying the physiology and biochemistry of living cells.

Cell culture entails to the removal of cells from an animal or plant and their successive growth in a favorable artificial environment. The cells may be removed from the tissue directly, or they may be derived from a cell line and disaggregated by enzymatic or mechanical means before further in vitro cultivation.

The workshop will provide a solid basis for the understanding of the growth of animal/human cells, with formal lectures and laboratory exercises. Through integrated learning methods, utilizing hands-on training to reinforce lecture material, participants will learn the biological basis and relevance of the process of cell culture techniques. The training program will facilitate the trainees to translate these techniques according to their specific research needs.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

The workshop is designed to address the interest of scientists and research scholars from different fields of biological sciences including molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, and biotechnology.

WORKSHOP CONTENT

The program includes a series of online lectures and hands-on sessions on the following topics:

• Preparation and types of media
• Maintenance of cells in culture
• Cell passaging and seeding in plate
• Cryopreservation

RESOURCE PERSONS

Dr. Sumbla Farooq Sheikh:    Dr. Sheikh is currently working at the Institute for Virology und Epidemiology of Viral diseases, University Hospital, Tübingen University, Germany. Her research primarily focuses on the design and development of contrast agents for the early detection of cancer with special focus on; glioblastoma and prostate carcinoma. She has a wide experience in the field of cellular and molecular studies involving cell culture-based assays.

Dr. Alexander Sturzu:            Dr Sturzu is working at the Department of Neuroradiolgy, University Hospital, Tübingen University, Germany. His main research interests are design of novel imaging compounds for tissue specific imaging and novel anticancer agents. He is well versed in foundational molecular biology and his expertise is widely based on cell culture and cell culture based assays.

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Topic: “Basic Cell Culture Techniques”
Time: Dec 14, 2020 12:00 PM Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent

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Topic: “Basic Cell Culture Techniques”
Time: Dec 15, 2020 12:00 PM Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent

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WORKSHOP PROGRAM (Pakistan Standard Time)

Monday, December 14, 2020

12:00-12:05     Inauguration Ceremony

12:05-12:10      Recitation of the Holy Quran

12:10-12:20      Welcome Address by Prof. Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary

12:20-13:30      Lecture 1 entitled, “Introduction to mammalian cell culture and cell passaging” by Dr. Sumbla Farooq Sheikh, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

13:30-14:30     Practical Session (Cryo-revive, trypsinization and passaging)

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

12:00-13:00     Lecture 2 entitled, “Treatment of cells, management of contamination and troubleshooting” by Dr. Alexander Sturzu, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

13:00-14:30     Practical Session 2 (Cell counting, plating and cryo-preservation)

14:30-14:45     Closing Ceremony

REGISTRATION PROCESS

Please register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFuxdQd7OBVVUbOWwkQ2v-cK089NsDcoFNoeuH72grEL3m9A/viewform before December 10, 2020.
Registered participants will receive e-certificates.

CONTACT PERSON

Ms. Khazima Muazim
Programme Manager
COMSTECH Secretariat, Islamabad
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Fax: +92-51-9205264, +92-51-9220265
Email: khazima@comstech.org

Prof. Dr. Farid Abou Rageh Mohamed Harraz

Professor at the Advanced Materials and Nano-Research Centre,
Najran University, Saudi Arabia

Date and Time: 16th December 2020
03:00 pm Pakistan Standard Time; 02:00 pm Gulf Standard Time: 10:00 am Greenwich Mean Time

In this webinar speaker will give an overview of recent research being done in the area of sensors technology (chemical sensors, electrochemical sensors and biosensors) and photochemical applications, focusing on photocatalysis under visible light illumination.

Target Audience: This webinar is open to academicians, scientists (particularly from chemistry, biology, nanoscience and materials engineering background), and general public from all the member OIC states.

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Time: Dec 16, 2020 03:00 PM Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent

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Dr. Sajad Jafari
Assistant professor, Amirkabir University of Technology , Iran,
Clarivate Analytics, Highly Cited Researchers in 2019 and 2020 COMSTECH Award in Mathematics (2019)

Date and Time: 03 December 2020
03:00 pm Pakistan Standard Time; 02:00 pm Gulf Standard Time:
10:00 am Greenwich Mean Time

COMSTECH has arranged a webinar to understand phenomena of Multistability. Multistability is one of the most important phenomena in dynamical systems. It occurs in many areas of science including physics, chemistry, biology, economics, and nature.

Target Audience: This webinar is open to academicians, scientists (Particularly from Mathematics and Physics background), and general public from all the member OIC states.

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